Important reminder re Santa

They got a chocolate each 😂

As a kid I didnt even want father christmas in the house at all so used to ask for my stocking to be in the porch. I think my parents "collected it from the porch" and brought it inside at an appropriate time!😉

For years I used red, blue and green dot stickers to denote whose gift was whose. This year I ran out of one colour. Substituted another, came to fill the stocking and can't work out whose is whose as apparently there are two new colours. Kids don't believe anymore but even so. I've Amazon primed new stickers in all the doors for next year.

We always had stockings downstairs, one year they wanted them on their beds. It was awful as they opened their gifts when they woke up and I really missed seeing them do it. Everyone agreed to stockings downstairs again after that.

My daughter age 2 at the time, didn't want father christmas in her bedroom. Fair enough so always been downstairs phew

" I'm here as a mole 🤣"

Lmao, maybe I'm delirious from lack of sleep but this has cracked me up 😂

I loved that feeling too! It felt like real magic that you could actually feel..having gone to with the empty stocking and then waking to it weighing down on you!

Santa got caught filling stocking in the spare room last night. I thought DS was asleep about 11 but he wandered in saying he couldn’t sleep. I had my back to him with the clothes airer between us so I’m hoping he didn’t spot me. Dumped out the parcels whilst he went for a wee and put empty sack back on door handle and resigned myself to setting an alarm.

10 mins later DS wandered downstairs saying he couldn’t sleep and has spent the night next to me. DH went to sleep in the spare room and thankfully sorted it.

might be the last year of playing the “is he asleep game” as DS is 11 so probably sussed it by next Xmas. Gutted I didn’t get the memo on duplicate stocking, that would have been a game changer.

My kids are 16 and 18. I put their stockings out before they went to bed (18 year old went out to say goodbye to his girlfriend and 16 year old was falling asleep in the living room). I was tired and wanted to go to sleep myself 😂

One good thing about Covid meant the stockings were hung up on the outside of the bedroom doors. So much easier to fill that it’s stayed the tradition….

Thank God my children now wake so late that Santa is able to fill the stockings at 7am.

Stocking are delivered to my bed room so we can open them while I'm in bed !!

Stockings are hung on the wall in the frontroom here no fire place to hang them on. When I was a child they was hung on the fireplace.

Haha, same.

When I was a child my DB would come into my room all excited, stupidly early, to open them together. I would always have prefered to sleep a bit more (sleep issue since childhood), but my DM would be glad for the extra sleep. My dad would hear we were up so he would head downstairs to put the fire on and Xmas music to make the room cosy for us, ready for the main presents.

With my DD the sticking would be put out empty downstairs before she went up, I would then fill it and take it up on my way to bed. As she got older and harder to get to sleep i would leave it leaning against her door. She had no siblings but her coming in to share what she had had in her stocking give me time to come around fully before heading downstairs

Santa never came into our rooms as kids, stocking were also on the couch /chair with your presents.

We used to put them in their rooms and it was a pain creeping in. Now at 19 and 17 I just leave them by the bedroom door and pray they don't trip over them in the night
I did suggest leaving them downstairs a few times but was told that wasn't the same, they wanted them in their bedroom (and DH agreed with them).
Thankfully I don't need to worry about DS. He doesn't understand Christmas due to autism so just put a few bits in his stocking and let him look at it when he's ready but the stocking stays in our room.

Stockings go at the end of the bed here.

I remember sitting on the stairs one year until around 4 am because DD had still not gone to sleep. I must have been mad.

Just taken and filled DS (20s) stocking, and he very sweetly pretended to be asleep.

Youngest has hera on the end of her bed (she’s 15) she LOVES the stocking always has our two adult sons our bay granddaughter and husbands under the tree
I’m awake on the sofa waiting for DH to get in from work

Blimey, right after reading through this thread, DD has just woken up, stomped right out of bed past her full sack, gotten into to my bed and not noticed a thing...😂😂😂

I can remember age around six, hearing my dad crying out "the f*ing birds are singing', as they'd been waiting up all night for me to sleep as I was too excited.....I just assumed in my head at that time that they had to be up to let SC in through the front door as we didn't have a fireplace...

😂😂😂😂

Slimmed down stocking this year after complaints about tat (and uneaten treats) one is a duplicate stocking so that's done ready for a bait and switch but I'll do them all when I go for a night time wee in a few hours

Hahaha that's so funny about the duvet cover....did your mum know you'd done before bed it or was it a surprise as she came to fill it with presents?

We also had pillowcases as a kid alongside our stocking on the end of the bed. They lived in the Christmas decorations box and they were giant pillowcases for pillows I've never seen the same size as in real life. I've no idea where my parents got them from, we definitely had no pillows that size at home. The pillowcase was filled with the big gifts and the stocking with the smaller ones.

We’ve always done presents in the living room & opened together. Just seems so much easier!

Years ago, we put a stocking in our DDs room when she was three and she woke up at about 2 am and kept us awake asking for it every 20 mins- we were shattered as also had a non sleeping 15m old at the time. Wrecked Christmas as we were all horribly tired. Since then we had stockings in the lounge under the tree!

When I say sorted I obviously mean putting the stuff I chose, wrapped and organised into named bags, ready to be decanted into stockings, into the stockings.

Done, they hung them above the fireplace before they went upstairs. Much easier than sneaking around in bedrooms!